What is actual-setup?

A setup guide for connecting Actual Computer to Hermes as an AI inference provider. Actual Computer can run models on the user's hardware and exposes an OpenAI-compatible interface either through an encrypted relay or a local device service.

Use it to route Hermes requests through an Actual Computer cluster, use local on-device inference, configure an `ac_` key, or troubleshoot provider errors.

It explains the correct provider configuration and helps diagnose failed requests without treating Actual as a generic custom provider. Device authorization still requires a person to complete browser steps.

actual-setup — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by cyborg-garden

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add cyborg-garden/hermes-agent-mt --skill actual-setup

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyborg-garden/hermes-agent-mt

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,810 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

Token cost

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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00016	$0.01810
Opus 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00724
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00362
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00181

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1b9e6bbfc5f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

actual-setup scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

(`curl -fsSL "https://actual.inc/install" | bash`) and completed device

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

(`curl -fsSL "https://actual.inc/install" | bash`) and completed device

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to actual-setup — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

optional-skills/devops/actual-setup/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Actual Computer Setup Skill

Sets up actual.inc (Actual Computer) as a Hermes inference provider. Actual turns the user's own hardware into a private inference cluster and exposes an OpenAI-compatible API two ways: a hosted end-to-end-encrypted relay at https://api.actual.inc (authenticated with an ac_ key), and a local on-device daemon at http://127.0.0.1:8080 (no auth on loopback). This skill does not install the Actual daemon for the user — device authorization requires a human in a browser.

When to Use

User wants to add actual.inc as an inference provider (cloud relay or local).
User has an ac_ key and wants Hermes routed through their Actual cluster.
User wants fully-local, on-device inference via the Actual daemon.
Troubleshooting: Actual requests failing with cryptic 400s or empty streams.

Prerequisites

Hermes has first-class actual provider support (provider id actual, aliases actual-computer, actualcomputer, aci). Do NOT configure Actual as a custom_providers / providers.actual.* entry on current Hermes — the built-in provider owns the name and handles base-url normalization, the Responses transport, and local no-auth automatically.
Relay mode: an Actual account and an ac_ inference key from https://actual.inc/user/keys.
Local mode: the user has installed the daemon (curl -fsSL "https://actual.inc/install" | bash) and completed device authorization by running actual once and opening the printed https://actual.inc/device?code=... URL in a browser. Relay that URL to the user and WAIT — never invent an email or authorize on their behalf. Codes expire in 5 minutes; re-run actual for a fresh one.

How to Run

Relay / API mode

Put the key in .env (secrets only — never config.yaml): append ACTUAL_API_KEY=ac_... to ~/.hermes/.env.

Verify the key and discover models with terminal:

curl -s https://api.actual.inc/v1/models -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACTUAL_API_KEY"

Select provider + model:

hermes config set model.provider actual
hermes config set model.default "MODEL_ID_FROM_DISCOVERY"

Verify end-to-end:

hermes chat -Q -q "Reply with exactly: ACTUAL_OK" --provider actual -m MODEL_ID

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

references/opencode.md 3.6 KB

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

3d ago First seen · 148 lines · 16 tokens per session scan C 1b9e6bbfc5f4

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actual-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyborg-garden/hermes-agent-mt (14 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,810 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to actual-setup, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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